On 16 April 2012 18:43, Fischer, RonaldX O <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 13 April 2012 22:59, Fischer, RonaldX O
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I would like to have Geany recognize my scripts written in Tcl/Expect,
>> to do
>> > syntax highlighting according to the Tcl syntax rules.
>> >
>> > These scripts all start in my case with
>> >
>> >  #!/usr/bin/expect -f
>> >
>> > and have no file extension.
>
>>
>> The #! line associations are hard coded unfortunately, but another way
>> is to explicitly mark the file as Tcl so it will be recognised by the
>> extract filetype regex.
>>
>> The default regex looks for -*-Tcl-*- on the first two lines, so
>> putting that in a comment on line two should do the trick.
>
> Unfortunately, this did not work. Here is how I tried:
>
> (1) I created a new file (File/New)
>
> (2) I wrote the following two lines:
>
> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
> # -*-Tcl-*-   (for Geany)
>
> (3) I saved the file (filename: dummy1 (no extension)).
>
> Still, Geany shows the filetype as "None".

Works for me, so the usual questions you didn't answer.

(Version of Geany and platform)

Cheers
Lex

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> Ronald
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